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Student
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2014
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William Sealy Gosset [1876-1937] was a brewer in Arthur Guinness and Co. Dublin from 1899 to 1935 when he moved to London. In 1907, writing under the nom de plume Student he published his paper on “the probable error of a mean” which was later developed by R A Fisher into Student's test of significance now in everyday use in biology and industry.
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